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1984 In technology the Aids Virus is identified
at that point it is not the worldwide problem it is today. Following on
from the PC, Apple releases the Macintosh computer. Following the Widespread
Famine in Ethiopia Some many of the top British and Irish pop musicians
under the Name Band Aid and record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas".
Following the boycott by the US of the Moscow Olympics the soviet block
boycotts the Los Angeles Olympic games. Recession continues to be a problem
in the US and 70 US Banks fail in just one year

Cost of Living 1984

How Much things cost in 1984
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 4.3 %
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 1211
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.75%
Average Cost of new house $86,730.00
Average Income per year $21,600.00
Average Monthly Rent $350.00
Movie Ticket $2.50
1 gallon of gas $1.10
Dodge RAM 50 Truck $8,995.00

What Events Happened in 1984

Indian Prime
minister Indria Ghandi assassinated

Widespread Famine in Ethiopia after
political conflict with charities believing as many as 10 million people
are facing starvation

Hundreds die from the effects of toxic gases
which leak from the Bhopal Union Carbide Factory

The UK and China agree Hong Kong will revert
to China in 1997

A Man shoots 20 dead and wounds 16 in McDonalds
Restaurant in San Ysidro California

A giant gas works explosion on the
outskirts of Mexico City left 500 dead

The Olympic Games are held in Los Angeles

USSR And soviet block boycotts the Olympic
games in retaliation for Western Boycott in 1980

A Union Carbide Pesticide plant in Bhopal
India leaks the lethal gas killing more than 3,500

Twelve month long strike by coal miners begins
in British coal industry, during the strike pickets and police clash
multiple times at pits and collieries around the country.

WPC Yvonne Fletcher a London police officer
is shot and killed by Libyan Diplomat

36 of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians
gathered in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid and recorded the
song "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money
for famine relief in Ethiopia

Michael Jackson wins unprecedented acclaim
for his Album Thriller and sales over 37 million copies

Popular Films

Ghostbusters

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Gremlins

Beverly Hills Cop

Terms of Endearment

The Karate Kid

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Police Academy

Romancing the Stone

Splash

The Terminator

Amadeus

The Killing Fields

A Passage To India

Popular Musicians

Phil Collins

Alison Moyet

Billy Joel

Tina Turner with "What's Love got to
do with it"

David Bowie

Wham! with "Wake Me up Before You Go"

Billy Ocean

UB40

Stevie Wonder with "I Just Called to
say I love You"

Bruce Springsteen

Kenny Rogers

Bananarama

Duran Duran with "The Reflex"

Ultravox

Cars

Popular TV Programs

Magnum, P.I.

Dynasty

Entertainment Tonight

Falcon Crest

Hill Street Blues

Cagney and Lacey

Cheers

Fame

Knight Rider

The A-Team

Jeopardy!

Technology 1984

Aids Virus identified
by French Immunologist

AT&T Broken Up

The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale

Sony and Philips introduce the first commercial
CD Players

Sony makes the first 3 1/2" computer
disk

The Space Shuttle Discovery has its maiden
voyage

First Ever flight in Space by Human untethered
using jet back Packs

Genetic fingerprinting or DNA profiling
was developed and is now in wide by Forensic scientists when obtaining
evidence in a crime